31/365 Picture Today Post

31/365 | Friday, January 31, 2025 | #365PictureToday

Overlooked

I almost overlooked Ripley, curled up on a blanket, when I went to sit on the couch.

 

29/365 Picture Today Post

29/365 | Wednesday, January 29, 2025 | #365PictureToday

Finish

I finished the day with a meeting at school.  I remembered to take a quick picture before the meeting.

 

28/365 Picture Today Post

28/365 | Tuesday, January 28, 2025 | #365PictureToday

Steaming

My best attempt to capture steam from my morning cup of coffee in my Pioneer Woman insulated coffee cup.

27/365 Picture Today Post

27/365 | Monday, January 27, 2025 | #365PictureToday

Basket

I keep napkins in a little basket made by one of my son's at Scout camp on my dining room table.

25/365 Picture Today Post

25/365 | Saturday, January 25, 2025 | #365PictureToday

Contrast

The cupcakes for tomorrow's game have contrasting colors.

24/365 Picture Today Post

24/365 | Friday, January 24, 2025 | #365PictureToday

Game

My family discovered this game a few years ago, and it has become a favorite.  The reader reads an event and you have to place it correctly between the other years in your own chronology.  If you guess correctly you get the card.  If you don't get it correct, the person next to you has a chance to guess.  It's a fun game for fans of history.

22/365 Picture Today Post

22/365 | Wednesday, January, 22, 2025 | #365PictureToday

Eyes | Picture A Character

CavMan is doing a little light reading about the University.

21/365 Picture Today Post

21/365 | Tuesday, January 21, 2025 | #365PictureToday

Now

It has been extremely cold here in Virginia this week.  The snow we got on January 6 is still hanging around, and the snow that fell on January 19 has hardly melted at all.  Today was sunny, but at 11:00 a. m. the temperature was just 14°F.  Parts of the back patio still look like this.  Schools were delayed or canceled today due to the cold temperatures and icy roads.

20/365 Picture Today Post

20/365 | Monday, January 20, 2025 | #365PictureToday

Chosen | Seasonal Photo

I have chosen our back patio for the seasonal photo this year.  I am hoping that there will be a lot of changes here over the coming year.  Today is a clear day with a temperature of 37°F.

 

19/365 Picture Today Post

19/365 | Sunday, January 19, 2025 | #365PictureToday

Adjust

My pile of junk mail toppled over twice yesterday so I needed to make an adjustment to whittle it down.  First I moved it to a box so that I wouldn't have to pick it up again, and then I started opening the envelopes and sorting through everything.

 

18/365 Picture Today Post

18/365 | Saturday, January 18, 2025 | #365PictureToday

Open

I had another idea for this picture, but I was busy talking and forgot to take my picture.  Alternatively, my husband frequently opens his tea chest to make a cup of hot tea.

15/365 Picture Today Post

15/365 | Wednesday, January 15, 2025 | #365PictureToday

Cotton | Picture in my Hands | White

It's necessary to have a box of cottony soft tissues within reach during the winter.

14/365 Picture Today Post

14/365 | Tuesday, January 14, 2025 | #365PictureToday

Decide | White

My team had to bowl a make-up game today because none of us could make it to the bowling alley last week after all of the snow we received.  We couldn't decide if we had really won any games or not.  We'll see tomorrow when we bowl again.

13/365 Picture Today Post

13/365 | Monday, January 13, 2025 | #365PictureToday

Prompt Free | White

My mom gave these angels to me this year.  They belonged to my grandmother, and she thought I might like to have them.  I think I am going to make them part of my Christmas decorations from now on.

 

12/365 Picture Today

12/365 | Sunday, January 12, 2025 | #365PictureToday

White

David and I went over to school to finish shoveling out some of the walkways.  There's still quite a bit of white stuff on the ground.

11/365 Picture Today Post

11/365 | Saturday, January 11, 2025 | #365PictureToday

Notice

I was busy taking Christmas decorations down and all I had time to notice were these icicles hanging over our back patio.

10/365 Picture Today Post

10/365 | Friday, January 10, 2025 | #365PictureToday

Spices

My husband made steak for dinner tonight, and he always puts Montreal steak seasoning on it.

9/365 Picture Today Post

9/365 | Thursday, January 9, 2025 | #365PictureToday

Calm

This stepping stone was a Christmas gift.

 

8/365 Picture Today Post

8/365 | Wednesday, January 8, 2025 | #365PictureToday

Trees

It has been a while since I took a picture of this funky curved tree in our front woods.

 

7/365 Picture Today Post

7/365 | Tuesday, January 7, 2025 | #365PictureToday

Door

I went out for an appointment today, but I didn't find any interesting doors.  After returning home, I took a picture of our door in the winter weather, complete with snow clearing equipment.

6/365 Picture Today Today

6/365 | Monday, January 6, 2025 | #365PictureToday

Quiet

All's quiet here on a snowy Epiphany day.  In Virginia, any snow generally means a snow day.  The roads were too bad for me to drive to work today, but my boss who doesn't generally close for snow, made the unprecedented decision (at least in the 7 years I have worked there) to close today.

Today I thought of Robert Frost's poem: 

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Whose woods these are I think I know.   

His house is in the village though;   

He will not see me stopping here   

To watch his woods fill up with snow.   

My little horse must think it queer   

To stop without a farmhouse near   

Between the woods and frozen lake   

The darkest evening of the year.   

He gives his harness bells a shake   

To ask if there is some mistake.   

The only other sound’s the sweep   

Of easy wind and downy flake.   

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,   

But I have promises to keep,   

And miles to go before I sleep,   

And miles to go before I sleep.

5/365 Picture Today Post

5/365 | Sunday, January 5, 2025 | #365PictureToday

Off Prompt

Today at church I presented a blanket to a member of our school board who is retiring after serving on the board continuously for 14 years.  This is a picture of the blanket which has a picture of the school's administrative building called simply The Stone House that I took a couple of months ago.

4/365 Picture Today Post

4/365 | Saturday, January 4, 2025 | #365PictureToday

Soup

Today I visited the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley with my best friend.  I was able to finally catch the exhibit "Curious By Nature" featuring the art of Charley and Edie Harper on its last weekend there.  Among other things, I found this piece titled Potluck. Maybe the coatimundi is eating soup out of this container.  We'll never know.

Some other images I enjoyed.

 

 

 

 

And the obligatory picture of us together with some of Charley Harper's National Parks poster art.

 

3/365 Picture Today Post

3/365 | Friday, January 3, 2025 | #365PictureToday

Curiosity

I find that reading tends to satisfy a lot of my curiosity.  Here are a few books that I am currently reading.

 

2/365 Picture Today Post

2/365 | Thursday, January 2, 2025 | #365PictureToday

One Word

This one took quite a while to figure out, but after much thought, I came up with the word "reset" as my word for the coming year.

1/365 Picture Today Post

1/365 | Wednesday, January 1, 2025 | #365PictureToday

Welcome | Picture Me

I generally welcome the new year by watching the Rose Parade.  As a former marching band member, I just love all of the bands and beautiful floats in this parade.  I think this is the 8th year that I have been involved in trying to take a picture every day.  Wednesdays usually find me bowling, but as this is a holiday our league is on a break.  I am also a math tutor, and I serve on the board of a Christian school sponsored by church.  Our head of school resigned last April, and I have had to pick up a lot of slack at the school while we conduct a search for a new head of school.  Because of those extra duties, I had very little extra time (or energy to be honest) to focus on photography and rarely posted after April last year.  While we haven't quite hired a new head of school yet, I am going to try my best to get back into the habit of taking a picture a day and posting it.  Happy New Year!